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...real or imagined, Jackson, he says, never forgot. When the two men returned home, Clinton began his rise to the top of Arkansas politics, while a flatter trajectory took Jackson into private law practice. He developed a flair for grandstanding; in 1986, for example, he filed a $2 million suit on behalf of a woman who said she had purchased a ''maggoty'' Hershey's Kiss. Jackson wrote his brief in rhyme, releasing to the press such lines as, ''There, wiggling and squirming all over the place,/ Were oodles of maggots flavoring the taste.'' In another incident, he staged a protest...
DIED. ALEXANDER (''Sandy'') MACKENDRICK, 81, director; in Los Angeles. Joining England's Ealing Studios as a scriptwriter in 1946, Mackendrick went on to direct the nimble Alec Guinness satires The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955). His major American credit: the biting Burt Lancaster- Tony Curtis show-biz expose Sweet Smell of Success...
...Department of Education could not be reached for comment.One of the plaintiffs, Lawrence Aaronson, is a history teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Another plaintiff, William Schechter, teaches at Lincoln-Sudbury High School.A local civil liberties lawyer, Harvey A. Silverglate, who is representing the plaintiffs in the suit, said he believes both sides should be included in discussions of the historical event.“The materials were arguing both sides of this historical dispute. Was this a genocide, or was this just simply the same kind of violence that you often see when a central government breaks down...
...gathered, that civet cats were probably spreading the SARS virus to human beings. Guan formulated his hypothesis just as SARS was beginning to return in Guangdong at the start of 2004. A more patient scientist might have waited and harvested more data. But patience is not Guan's strong suit, and with new human cases surfacing, there wasn't time. Putting his scientific reputation on the line, he gave his preliminary results to authorities in Guangdong and urged them to cull civets being sold in wild-animal markets. After some hesitation, they did--and since then, the only new SARS...
...field. Yet that was precisely the term used to title this weekend’s polished debut of a set of five student-written plays at the Loeb Ex. However, in “Long Shot: A Festival of New Plays,” the term seemed to suit the sense of irony that ran throughout the program...